Thursday, December 31, 2015

Under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, at midnight on the Eve of the New Year in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and all the churches of the Armenian Church, a Prayer of Thanksgiving and a Pomegranate-blessing service will be offered for the New Year.

The government authorities of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh have donated pomegranates to the Mother Cathedral for the Blessing of the Pomegranate.

We urge our faithful to participate in the Prayer of Thanksgiving and the Pomegranate-blessing.

As always, Met. Hilarion was exceedingly direct in his address to the Catholic hierarchs assembled to discuss the Church and the family. It ...

"The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide."